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Fordyce did not answer on the instant, and when he did his voice was constrained. "You don't think he's in immediate danger of it do you?" "Quite the contrary. He looks to be on the upgrade; but it's a safe bet she outlives him, and then think of her with a hundred thousand dollars a year to spend! Talk about honey-pots! and flies!"
"What can that be?" I asked. "Some human being in pain," answered Mr Fordyce, pressing on his horse in the direction from whence the sound came. We followed him till we came to a tree round which stood a number of Veddahs, far less repulsive than those we had before seen.
How different is true Christianity, with its active spirit of benevolence ever going about to do good, and thus to repress and overcome evil," I heard Mr Fordyce remark to my grandfather. He responded to the sentiment warmly. "Unhappily, Buddhism is to be found, not only in Asia, but in civilised Europe and America," he remarked.
At dinner I met the young military officer, Mr Nowell, of whom Mr Fordyce had spoken. I was altogether very well pleased with him, though he did not show out much at first. He had a firm, independent manner, and a mouth and eye which gave me a favourable opinion of his courage and decision qualities very important in a travelling companion in a country full of wild beasts like Ceylon.
It was as well that Lord Fordyce had gone up to his room for the lady of Héronac grew white as death for a moment, and then crumpling the note in her hand she staggered up the old stone stairs to her great sitting-room. So he had gone then and they could have no explanation. But he had come out of the manger and was going to let the other animal eat the hay.
He came first upon Andrew trying to make Miss Fordyce swallow a little of the brandy. "There's but one gentleman hurt, sir," said the guard. "The other's only a young lady that's run till she's dropped." "To bring brandy," supplemented Andrew. The doctor recognized Alexa, and wondered what reception her lather would give his patient, for to Potlurg he must go!
In the midst came in Clarence himself, having hastened to dress, on hearing that Mr. Fordyce was in the house, and looking none the better for the exertion. 'Look here, my dear boy, said Frank, taking his hot trembling hand, 'you have put me in a great fix.
Once, when emptying out a cup at the garden-door, she saw a mark of blood on the steps, but Mr. Philip came up and swore at her for a prying fool. Doctor Tomkins was sent for, but he barely walked through the room, and 'all know that he is a mere creature of Philip Winslow, wrote the Mrs. Fordyce of that date to her son.
She stood in the outer office waiting, unconscious that she was the subject of remark and speculation among the clerks at their desks, still more unconscious that one day her name would be as familiar and respected among them as that of the governor himself. After the lapse of a few minutes the office boy ushered her into the private room of Mr. Fordyce senior.
Fordyce perceived that she had sustained a very severe disappointment, which had made her for the time being a trifle discontented with her own fair lot. She took an early opportunity, when Gladys conducted her to the guest-chamber, to put another question to her. 'Gladys, how long is it since George was here?
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